Modelling the assessment of port wine stain parameters from skin surface temperature following a diagnostic laser pulse

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-187

  Gabay, Shimon ^a,b   Lucassen, Gerald W ^a,b   Verkruysse, Wim ^a,b   Van Gemert, Martin U C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Laser Group   (Israel)

Author keywords

bioheat equation; heat diffusion; laser treatment; modelling; monte carlo; port wine stains; thermocamera; vascular lesion

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION; LASER SURGERY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; LASERS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031026114     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)20:2<179::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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